I was inspired to write this post (I can hear all of you sighing ‘Yet Another on Big Data’) due to another ‘Big’ reason. I listened to a TED (www.ted.com) talk by David Christian titled ‘The History of the World in 18...
Having been a Business Intelligence practitioner for the last 13 years, there has never been a more exciting time to practice this art, as organizations increasingly realize that a well implemented BI & Analytics system can provide great competitive advantage for them. This leads us to the question of – ‘What is a well implemented BI system?’ Let us follow the Q&A below. Q: What is a well implemented BI system? A: A well implemented BI system is one that is completely business focused. Q: Well, that doesn’t make it any easier....
Business decisions are the cornerstone of a successful BI implementation. Cataloging the decisions taken by the key stakeholders in an organization is the first step in understanding the information requirements for a data warehouse. Capturing business decisions – strategic and operational, is not a simple task as most business decisions tend to be complex requiring diverse data points. Further, when all decisions are collected, how will we know the decisions that have the most impact on the business? Here’s a simple framework based...
